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You can build email circulation over forty different ways, and we’ve got all the case studies to prove it! If you’re subscribed to our email newsletter, then you’re living proof that the tips I’m about to share actually work. One of them even worked on you … Continue

Most of the publishers I work with are rich with content assets.

If they’re not rich with revenue, it’s usually because they don’t know how to leverage those assets. Efficiency is key to success in a multiplatform publishing environment. Before you can design a system that minimizes manpower and maximizes automation, you need to do a … Continue

At Mequoda we get about 30,000 unique visitors every month. As a niche marketing blog for publishers, that ain’t too shabby! … Continue

These 10 organic marketing programs are perhaps the best organic marketing definitions

Organic marketing focuses on the shift from spending money on marketing to spending time on a disciplined strategy, proven to increase traffic and get your message out with paying for it. … Continue

Link building in itself is sort of black hat. You’re putting in effort to create inbound links that weren’t created organically.

But as marketers, you have a duty to pay attention and try to build quality backlinks. Thankfully, there are still plenty of white hat, legitimate strategies out there for you to try. … Continue

Gutenberg is dead. And you will be, too, if you don’t make the transition now to meet the public’s growing demand for digital information.

Fortunately, there is one resource, one unique program that can change the way you, your staff and your entire organization think of the Internet and help you catch up to the future. … Continue

13 event websites that can get you listed in Google and extend your reach to the conference-going community

In person live events are a preferred medium. When a passionate user is committed to a topic, they want to go to the source; the author, guru exert that really knows the content. They want an interactive presentation. … Continue

Digital content marketing drives surge in digital product sales for publishers

While many organizations have discovered the power of digital content marketing to sell products and services, perhaps no organizations are being impacted like the publishers of books, magazines, newsletters and videos. … Continue

One set of metrics that every user of any capacity should know are your referring website analytics. Referring websites are those who are linking to you and sending you traffic. … Continue

Proven methods and a new idea for blockbuster SEO campaigns

A lot of people offer advice about the importance of SEO campaigns and SEO copywriting. And a lot of that advice tells you to start by developing a free report, then research your keywords and finally, write a landing page letter that’s been optimized for … Continue

Point of purchase, social media, and physical products can help you build your email marketing list

With your brand and products listed throughout the Internet, audience members may not be introduced to you through your website. Even if they are, they may avoid signing up for your email newsletter from the start, opting to close … Continue

Some content publishers are having a hard time with the changes that take place in the digital age. New advances arise before others can be mastered and managed properly. Is this something you’ve experienced first-hand?

Of course, there are other online business managers and digital publishers who have developed new revenue streams reflective of the drastic … Continue

The words “spring cleaning” draw up images of folded laundry, clean windows and dust-free shelves. But what about “profile cleaning?” Think about all the social networks you’re on, but aren’t your everyday tools (it’s OK, we all have favorites). Since social networks change their structure every couple of months, it’s easy for your business profile … Continue

How to jump start and run a successful SEO campaign

An SEO campaign starts with a keyword and evolves into a multi-media marketing program. When a marketer finds a keyword that he feels can dominate in search engines, the goal is to create a product that can utilize the title, to either sell or start collecting … Continue

A look at the correlation between social sharing and links provides welcomed results

The relationship between SEO and social media is evolving. We can see this in changes Google has made to its algorithm, and the increasing use of social media.

After Google’s algorithm changes were confirmed, online business owners started to wonder how social signals were … Continue

What does the future of social media look like to you?

As digital publishers and audience development professionals, it’s important to keep an eye out for changes that take place throughout social media channels. With massive audiences spending time on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, looking towards the future can help us better develop … Continue

Digital magazine publishing utilizes social media to increase sharing opportunities; are you utilizing these three tips?

The presence of social media is all around us. Even when people aren’t actively engaging on a social network, they can have social experiences on websites and blogs. They can add their opinions to articles online and share their favorite … Continue

Today’s we have some tips and advice from top bloggers on how to improve your company’s SMO. … Continue

The Digital Publishing Bootcamp emphasizes the creation and distribution of great content

Social media is one way publishers can assure their content gets in front of more interested parties. However, since each social network is used in a specific way, it’s important to understand how to create content for the targeted social crowd. … Continue

Three ways to generate free subscribers

The digital subscription is an interesting audience development tool. It can be used to build an email marketing file, and it can help develop free and paid subscribers. There are three subscription website archetypes that particularly target free subscribers,

In many circles, blogging is still misunderstood by many. However, as more … Continue

Writing a professional bio that must double as a landing page on your website, is perhaps one of the most daunting tasks a writer can face

As a consultant, author, and speaker for more than 20 years, I’ve had some practice writing many variations of my professional bio. For me, it’s much easier to write a … Continue

Let’s face it, if millennials were a brand, then the “Occupy” movement didn’t do much for their image. It did however reinforce the enormity of the upcoming consumer generation and the influential pull they are having on spending and media consumption.

As a publisher, the reason this matters to you is the same reason why we … Continue

For success, digital publishers rely on driving website traffic. During the Digital Publishing Bootcamp, you will learn dozens of ways to drive traffic, including SEO, link building and social media marketing.

These strategies aren’t complete until we share additional information on using your website’s architecture to build your email marketing file. … Continue

Bob Kaslik shares five keys for digital publishing success

Few people know more about digital publishing and marketing than Bob Kaslik. Since 2008, he has managed the creation, operation, and optimization of 10 robust digital publishing communities including Interweave’s flagship Knitting Daily.

On April 11, Kaslik joined eight other industry professionals in the Mequoda Digital Publishing Hall … Continue

Other contest ideas I’ve seen on Pinterest include asking users to upload pictures of themselves using or wearing their favorite product, or simply repining a pin about your contest. Be sure to require that users pin it onto a new board using the company name, a great boost for organic SEO. Remember, every time your … Continue

A look at digital publishing changes and a glimpse into the future

This summer alone has seen some major changes that can affect the digital publishing industry. Although some of these changes won’t directly impact digital publishers, these changes may certainly change the way they operate by putting a focus on the Internet community. Let’s take … Continue

Getting the most out of your interviews

In yesterday’s member profile, Minal Bopaiah, editor of Subscription Site Insider, spoke of the importance that case studies play in their success. She conducts one every other week, speaking to a head of marketing or CEO for 1-1½ hours on the phone and then writing up the study. … Continue

If you type “event listing websites” into Google, the first result on the page is a Mequoda Daily article. Originally, the article discussed the top eight event listing websites for getting listed in Google. The article has since been updated to list 11.

This article is a perennial performer for us, as it brings in consistent … Continue

Minal Bopaiah, Editor, Subscription Site Insider, Anne Holland Ventures Inc., Newport, R.I.

How did you come to this industry?
Circuitously. I was the international editor for Boston Metro. Then I decided on a different route and got a Masters in psychology. A job at Sesame Street followed that combined my experience in psychology and media, and I … Continue

The Young and the Rest of Us

As SIPA approaches our 1,000th Linkedin group member this week, we were wondering how to mark the occasion and I came across this from the blog Online Dominance:

“Rewarding is most effective as a retention tool, and not an acquisition tool, Britton says. [That’s Matt Britton, founder and … Continue

How did you get into this field?

Mitch [Eisen, the CTO,] and I met on our first jobs after college. Then about 6 or 7 years later in 1999 we were both between things and he called me to see if we wanted to do something together around the Internet. Our first product was not email-centric; … Continue

Songwriting Brothers Show What a ‘Small World’ Can Do

One day in the early 1960’s, Walt Disney called brothers Robert and Richard Sherman into his office “and gave them a book by P. L. Travers about a magical nanny named Mary Poppins. ‘He said, Do you know what a nanny is?’ Robert Sherman recalled. ‘And … Continue

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George Washington’s LinkedIn Profile … Continue

Gosh it’s hard to keep up to date with every tool and remedy for driving website traffic. You might be loading traffic back to your website, but are they the right kind of visitors? Will they buy a product? For example, is it worth the time for B2B editors to create Pinterest boards? What about … Continue

How Wary of Your Social Media Life Should You Be?

So you think that your next prospective employer or business associate won’t notice your Facebook posting of a “funny” picture on a family vacation or an unruly comment after one of your teams lost, or a tweet you sent after a political debate? Think again. A … Continue

A study from the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth shows businesses saying, “it’s not you, it’s me” to blogging during its peak of effectiveness
There are no sweeter words right now in the publishing industry, than the report that 26% of all those non-publisher Inc. 500 companies trying to weasel their … Continue

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Faster than a speeding bullet…Capturing prospects in a single bound – It’s LinkedIn! Yes, LinkedIn—today’s best friend and rainmaker in media sales. With its plethora of users and information, it’s the best prospecting tool we have for reaching new and hidden decision-makers, shortening the sales process, lifting the quality of the sales conversation, and increasing … Continue

What do you look for on LinkedIn? When finding professionals with interesting backgrounds and skill sets, do you go beyond the marketing buzzwords and look for the ideas they have to share?

Professionals who develop blogs have a better, more concrete chance to show people who they are through their written words. And although the Internet … Continue

Professionals scouring LinkedIn are granted an interesting opportunity: the chance to network and make new business connections.

Most of those doing so are attempting to better their careers, and thus, don’t necessarily have an extensively amount of time to dedicate to the social network. … Continue

You should tweet this article…want to know why? Because it details the power social sharing has on the Internet community.

For instance, were you aware that social media has an impact on email? Recent data from GetResponse shows that the inclusion of social sharing icons leads to higher click-through rates. … Continue

Give your story, and audience, a fine tuning with the new rules of social media PR

In PR Newswire’s 2012 edition of Unlocking Social Media for PR, Jason Keller, Senior Vice President of Products for PR Newswire reminds your marketing and PR team that “you simply cannot escape the influence of social media in modern public … Continue

In a time when publishers have a lot of opportunity to build their subscriber file, it’s worth knowing what their audience deems valuable.

If Digital Natives are in your target audience, our Digital Native Survey shares a lot of information on the media consumption habits of Digital Natives. … Continue

Tailoring Your Message to the Medium

A few weeks ago, National Public Radio gave its standout comedy quiz show, “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” a shot at the big-time: a Friday night slot on BBC America television. I’m a huge fan of the Saturday morning show, now in its 14th year, which features a recap of … Continue

11 Tips from SIPA’s Recent Marketing Conference

Check out these 11 tips from the Marketing Conference compiled by Greg Krehbiel of Kiplinger Washington Editors. Greg served as the Conference co-chair along with Heather Farley of Access Intelligence. SIPA thanks them for their hard work and success. … Continue

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We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a…um…(sorry, incoming tweet)

So Sunday is Christmas and Monday is Boxing Day. It’s a time when…
Umm, excuse me, let me just answer this one text.
It’s a time when families and friends come together and…
Ahh, one second, I need to respond to this tweet.
So where was I? Right.? …when families … Continue

I wrote down a tweet once that said, “I like to say that Twitter is like a bar, Facebook is your living room and LinkedIn is the local chamber of commerce.” I don’t know the woman who wrote it, Brenda S. Stoltz from Ariad Partners, but the ideas as so relatable that I couldn’t just … Continue

The Rules of (Social) Engagement

Imagine walking into a packed room of 10 roundtables filled to the brim with colleagues, and subject signs like Email Marketing Metrics: What’s Working, Repurposing Content for Profit, Renewal Marketing: Online vs. Print, Building Attendance at Live Events and AdWords: What’s Working?—all with highly respected moderators. And having to pick just … Continue